Medical : AIDS & HIV

On the second edition: "It is both a pleasure and somewhat of a miracle to see a book as up to date and informative as this one...(The authors) have written a complete and definitive treatment of nursing care for patients infected with HIV disease, with a breadth from critical care to hospice care and a depth from pathophysiology to treatment.". --Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing. Durham and Lashley have responded to the dramatic changes in the HIV/AIDS pandemic with a thoroughly updated, revised and expanded new edition of their superlative text. With a strong new emphasis on prevention, promoting wellness and the mangement of symptoms, THE PERSON WITH AIDS/HIV, 3rd Edition addresses the new reality for this population of experiencing better and longer lives. In addition, this new edition includes chapters on special concerns of women, children, ethnic minority populations, and internet sites. This comprehensive text on HIV/AIDS is where the nursing care is: on the front lines of the battle. more...

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Traces development of Brazil's AIDS treatment policies during the country's tumultuous path to democracy as its government redefined access to health care as a basic right. This book explains the key role of Brazil in raising global AIDS consciousness. It also explores the global implications of Brazil's program. more...

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The numbers of Africans living in absolute poverty continues to increase. Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change, this book outlines a model that could lift people out of poverty, with sustainable benefits. more...

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The HIV/AIDS epidemic has the potential to impede and even reverse development if not addressed early enough. Poverty and income inequality have been shown to facilitate the diffusion of HIV epidemics. While abject poverty in the Middle East and North Africa region remains low, a significant proportion of the population (23.2%) live under $2 per day and are extremely vulnerable in their ability to cope with shocks.In order to preserve the benefits of national and regional development investments put in place by governments, and donor agencies, greater investments to improve HIV/AIDS advocacy, information and prevention strategies are needed now to maintain the current low prevalence levels. This title outlines the role of the Bank in confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region based on a review of needs and gaps at the regional and country level. more...

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It has now been 25 years since the apocryphal report in the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report dated June 5, 1981 entitled, a oePneumocystis Pneumonia - Los Angelesa, which announced what was to become HIV/AIDS. HIV has now affected virtually all countries that have looked for it and has had a devastating impact on the public health and medical care infrastructure around the world. HIV/AIDS has also disproportionately affected nations with the least capacity to confront it, especially the developing world nations in Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the emerging republics of Eastern and Central Asia. The pandemic, unlike any other disease of our time, has had profound impacts on the practice of public health itself: bringing affected communities into decision making; demanding North-South partnerships and collaborations; and changing the basic conduct of clinical and prevention trials research. While much has been written in scholarly publications for medical, epidemiologic and disease control specialists, there is no comprehensive review of the public health impact and response to HIV/AIDS in the developing world. This edited volume seeks to systematically describe the emergence and form of the epidemics (epidemiology), the social, community and political response, and the various measures to confront and control the epidemic, with varying levels of success. Of particular importance are strategies that appear to have been useful in ameliorating the epidemic, while contrasting the situation in a neighboring country or region where contrasting prevention or care initiatives have had a deleterious outcome. Common to all responses has been the internationalmulti-sectoral response represented by the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the Gates Foundation, among others, to promote HIV pharmacologic therapy in resource-poor settings. The chapter authors will explore the politic more...

Price: $149.00